From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:13:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 In-Reply-To: <20000925033128.A10381@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Not sure if this is the right moment for those changes though, I'm not > worried about ext2 but about the other non-netoworked fses that nobody > uses regularly. it *is* the right moment to clean these issues up. These kinds of things are what made the 2.2 VM a mess (everybody added his easy improvements, without solving some of the conceptual problems), and frankly, instead of yet another elevator algorithm we need a squeaky clean VM balancer above all. Please help identifying, fixing, debugging and testing these VM balancing issues. This is tough work and it needs to be done. Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/